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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC
  as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra...
• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC
  as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration....
• BASIC - It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC
  as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration....
• BASIC /bay'-sic/ n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960
  which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers....
• C programmers don't have the BASIC instincts.
• We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity.
  Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals....
• In his book titled "Quick C", Al Stevens gives us a quick rundown on the origin, purpose and usefulness of so many programming languages.
  COBOL was designed so that managers could read code....
• BASIC programmers GOTO it.
• What? Still programming in basic?